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Things Ben Mirov Thinks are Rad: Post 4 of ???
Every now and then an essay comes around that captures an inchoate idea in poetry and amplifies and shapes that idea. Take Charles Olson's magisterial "Projective Verse," which not only explicates but embodies the…
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Gladys Horton, lead singer for The Marvelettes: More than just another fish in the sea
Gladys Horton, one of the lead singers for the Marvelettes, has died. It’s a measure of how little respect this great girl-group has been given that The New York Times obituary of Horton had…
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Things Ben Mirov Thinks are Rad: Post 3 of ???
Dean Young's heart is rad. Even through it may not be working as well as it should, it's produced tons of poems that have helped me live my life. Dean needs a new heart.…
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A Little More about Jerry Kern (by Laura Orem)
In response to the previous post, and in continuing honor of Jerome Kern's birthday, here are four versions (three video, one audio) of the remarkable song, "Ol' Man River," written with Oscar Hammerstein for…
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Happy Birthday, Jerry Kern
I hear music when I look at you,A beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew.Down deep in my heartI hear it play,I feel it startThen melt away.I hear music when I touch your…
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Snow [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest darlingest Bleaders, This is beginning to seem like kind of a lot of snow. Am I wrong? I grew up around these parts and it seems to me when I was a kid…
